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Crows are friggin smart

Allegheny Tom

Allegheny Tom

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I just saw another example of how interesting I find ma nature.
I was sitting in my bus parked in a dirt lot waiting to start my morning run to begin, and I see this crow walking across the lot with a big piece of saltine cracker in its mouth.
He walks over to a puddle and PURPOSELY drops the cracker in the puddle, then proceeds to eat it after it softens. That bird knew he could soften that cracker if he carried it over to the puddle and got it wet.

Something else he did...he approached the puddle from the side in which he had the bright, early morning sun in his eyes, but he walked AROUND the puddle before dipping his cracker. I assume he didn't want the sun in his eyes while he ate so he could better see his surroundings.

There is no doubt in my mind that crow was making reasoned decisions. That is one smart critter.

I saw a documentary once about crows and how they can recognize individual human faces and also communicate to other crows about the faces. It was fascinating.
 
Last month I was in a gas station parking lot and saw a crow fly by clutching something. Then it reached the other side of the lot, it dropped it directly over another crow on the ground there waiting. I walked over and saw it was a pork rib with a few scraps remaining.

I've seen them fly over asphalt and drop pecans, to crack them I suppose.
 
They're SUPER smart. I heard a story about how crows in this town would purposely put nuts in the road during a red light and then fly away when it turned green. Then once the cars were gone they would go eat the crushed nut. This video is pretty telling too, it's Ravens but same concept.
 
The more you observe gods work the more incredibly fascinating it becomes. Makes me think of this turkey I’ve been chasing. After a hand full of hunts and some close encounters he seems to do everything right to stay alive. I’m not just talking about hanging up out of range of calling either. Maybe I will post the long story later.


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I’ve watched crows place walnuts and pecans in the road so the cars will crack hem, then eat the meat out of the inside. They are DEFINITELY smart animals.


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